is it just me or does this game freeze when you drive in certain places

i have the complete edition for my ps3 and it seems like to me that this game freezes when i drive in certain places. it's happened between 3-5 times since i got it. this last time it froze which was like 10 minutes ago i drove through an allie which i've never drove through before and the game froze. the game freezes and the on ly thing i can do is turn off the ps3. it sucks when i turn off auto save do like 4-5 races and then it freezes lol.